science fiction | Justin Bog

Prometheus: A Film Recommendation

Elizabeth Shaw: My God, we were so wrong . . . I grew up in a family of horror film lovers, and scary book readers. I was a kid, age ten, when Jaws...

Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day by Ben Loory — with obligatory Kipling & Zippy photo!

The young man has never been afraid of hats before. In fact, he’s recently found himself admiring them. The hats on the heads of the men in this town have actually seemed to...

The Best American Short Stories 2011 – A Recommendation

Okay, I’ll stop with these two happy Kipling photos and carry on with my recommendation I searched for the anthology The Best American Short Stories 2011, a series that comes out each Fall with...

Discover Five Authors

Here is a new list of five authors to discover, and two to grow on! The evening mist is back over the pond. The air is colder. Fall into Winter waterborne storms are...

Film: Midnight in Paris — An Instant Classic

Okay, I resisted going to the new Woody Allen movie. A lot of you did the same. Every weekend I need to be convinced to go to the movies. This wooing has to be...

Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes — A Film Recommendation

Another great summer movie, Rise of the Planet of the Apes comes out of nowhere and starts people talking about meddling with nature, Tom Felton, that meanie Draco Malfoy from the Harry Potter...